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Example sentences for: covet
How can you use “covet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
we, like you, secretly covet recliners," purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990.
None of these reforms pleased the Russians and Prussians, who continued to covet Polish territory.
We'll treat celebrity DNA like designer clothes, hankering for Michael Jordan's genes the way we covet his Nike sneakers today.
10) Thou shalt not covet.
Bell examines this question, but phrases it in terms of "envy," writing, "Democracy is by nature contentious because men constantly covet what other men have ... the result is often--in Nietzsche's term--ressentiment or envy, anger, and hatred towards those at the top."